Meanings of great chessboard in anglès

And so now he turns from the Protestant's God to Destiny playing with the pawns upon the great chessboard.

Moving backward and forward on the great chessboard of war, the two adversaries seemed to have gained or lost nothing.

We have been cast as an extra, a playtime corpse, a small and motionless pawn on the great chessboard that is Hollywood.

A baffled trickster, whose every move upon the great chessboard had been a separate mistake, leading step by step to the irrevocable sentence-checkmate